A Renowned Historian

                             An Experienced Publisher   

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns is Professeur d'Histoire Moderne (Professor of Early Modern History); Agrégé d'Histoire from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (France); Docteur (1990) and Docteur Habilité (1996) from the University of Toulouse (France); and a former Scientific Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Spanish Studies in Madrid (Spain), where he spent three years.  Winner of both the OSU Faculty Associate Award for excellence in interracting with student life on campus; and the OSU Scholarly Excellence Award for excellence in scholarship in 1995, Dr. Alain Saint-Saens was a Scholar-in-Residence at Trent University (Canada), and has taught at Tulane University (USA); the Universidad of Toledo and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain); and the University of Rennes (France).  He is a member of the Editorial Board of Hispania Sacra.  He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies from 1991 to 1993; and organized the International Meeting of the SSPHS in Puerto Rico in 1992. 

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns served as  Co-Director of the Mediterranean Conferences from 1994 to 1998. He organized highly successful congresses in Rome (Italy); Murcia (Spain); Syracusa (Italy); Paris/Bordeaux (France); and Istambul (Turkey).

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns

Awarding a Honorary Doctorate

 to Prime Minister of France and Mayor of Bordeaux,

Mr. Alain Juppé,

during the 1997 Mediterranean Conferences

 in  Bordeaux (France).

Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns served as

Chair of the History Department at the Dowling College of New York

from 1997 to 2000,

before becoming Director of University Press of the South

and Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde in 2000.

                          Alain Saint-Saëns is a nationally

                       and internationally renowned historian.

                             He authored three major books:

• - La nostalgie du désert.  L'idéal érémitique en Castille au Siècle d'Or (1993).

• - Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain, 1545-1690 (1995).

• - Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable.  Ermites et Réforme catholique dans l'Espagne des Habsbourg (1550-1700) (1999).

                         Alain Saint-Saëns edited or co-edited

                                several volumes of articles:

• - Religion, Body, and Gender in Early Modern Spain (1991).

• - The Early Modern Spanish Woman:  Images and Realities (1995) [co-edited by Magdalena Sánchez].

• - Historia silenciada de la mujer española (1996).

• - Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain (1997).

• - Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain.   Literature and Theater in Context (2000) [co-edited by María-José Delgado].

• - Young Charles V, 1500-1531 (2000).

Alain Saint-Saëns translated from English and Spanish

into French a book of short stories,  

Far From my Mother's Home,

by the famous American author, Barbara Mujica:

  Loin, très loin de la maison de ma mère

(Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde:  New Orleans, 2005).

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